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 from the wheel to the ſhip's head. Soon the pumps were choaked, and could no longer be worked: diſmay ſeized on all--nothing but unutterable deſpair, ſilent anguiſh, and horror, wrought up to frenzy, was to be ſeen; not a ſingle ſoul was capable of an effort to be uſeful--all ſeemed more deſirous to extinguiſh their calamities by embracing death, than willing, by a painful exertion, to avoid it.

At about eleven o'clock they could plainly diſtinguiſh a dreadful roaring noiſe, reſembling that of waves rolling againſt rocks; but the darkneſs of the day, and the accompanying rains, prevented them from ſeeing any distance; and if it were a rock, they might be actually daſhed to pieces on it before they could perceive it. At twelve o'clock, however, the weather cleared up a little, and both the wind and the ſea ſeemed to have abated: the very expanſion of the proſpect round the ſhip was exhilarating; and as the weather grew better, and the ſea leſs furious, the ſenſes of the people returned, and the general ſtupefaction began to decreaſe.

The weather continuing to clear up, they in ſome time diſcovered breakers and large rocks without ſide of them: ſo that it appeared they muſt have paſſed quite cloſe to them, and were now fairly hemmed in between them and the land.

"In this very critical juncture," lays our traveller, "the captain, entirely contrary to my opinion, adopted the dangerous reſolution of letting go an anchor, to bring her up with her head to the ſea: but, though no ſeaman, my common ſenſe told me that he could never ride it out, but muſt directly go down. The event nearly juſtified my judgment; for ſhe had ſcarcely been at anchor before an enormous ſea rolling over her,